When you're so excited about the irregular past tense verb you correctly deduced while watching a movie in your target language and the general progress you made that you accidentally spill your food all over yourself... while eating breakfast the next morning.
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...when you are slightly annoyed to be interrupted in the middle of studying, then pleasantly surprised to see it's a group of native speakers of the language you were studying who are interrupting you!
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when this happens: you are driving in your car and listening to the new language course you just purchased. The course has some initial "sound effects" in the form of music representative of the country where the language is spoken.Other than that opening music the course seems to have a straight forward style of presenting an English word or phrase followed by the same in your target language. As you are driving and paying attention to both the road and to the course you suddenly hear a train approaching and you momentarily panic. You then realize the course has introduced a new word,"train", and the sound that frightened you was the sound effect they added to the course. But, being the true language nerd that you are, you are so absorbed in the course that it also scares you the next time you are reviewing the material...and the time after that..and the time after that...
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When you're writing a novel and fantasizing, if it happens to get published, about how many different languages it will be translated into and how you will own one copy of every single translation.
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When you go through a side tracked explanation, to a group of other high schoolers to
whom you were explaining the origins of the French revolution, of the Georgian language,
its structure, it's history, specifically it's oppression in the communist Soviet Union. About
halfway through explaining the origins of the script, one of the people to whom you were
explaining it, raises their hand and asks what Georgian is. You know that you are truly a
language nerd when you chuckle expecting a joke but realize the rest of the group has no
idea about what you are talking. Confusion ensues before you disappointedly go back to
reviewing the French revolution with your classmates.
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